Brazil Unfiltered

Erika Robb Larkins is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behner Stiefel Chair of Brazilian Studies and the Director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at California State University, San Diego. Her first book, The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, 2015), explores the political economy of spectacular violence in one of Rio’s most famous favelas. Her second book, The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and the Social Order in Brazil, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She has also published on issues of race, gender, and politics in Brazil, with recent articles appearing in American Ethnologist, City and Society, and the Journal for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, and in public outlets including El País and O Estado de São Paulo. In addition to all of her activities, Erika is the President of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Tainah Santos Pereira is a PhD student of International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Tainha has a MA in Political Science from the Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio) and a BA in International Relations from Universidade Estácio de Sá. She was a Fellow of the Draper Hills Summer Program on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in 2022 at Stanford University. She is interested in the topics of financing for development, reform of the international financial and monetary systems, multilateral development banks and the BRICS process. She is currently political coordinator for Mulheres Negras Decidem (Black Women Decide), a social movement dedicated to promoting Black women participation in institutional politics.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Isabel Figueiredo is an ecologist and coordinator of the Cerrado and Caatinga Program at the Institute of Society, Population and Nature (ISPN). With a Master's degree in Ecology from the University of Brasilia, she has worked for eighteen years on the conservation of the Cerrado with indigenous peoples and communities to promote sustainable uses of biodiversity. She coordinated the Small Grants Program in Brazil (PPP-ECOS) for 17 years, supporting community initiatives that generate socio-environmental benefits.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Andre Pagliarini is an assistant professor of history and international studies at Louisiana State University, a faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and a non-resident expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, New York Times, and The Guardian as well as Folha de S. Paulo and Piauí in Brazil. He is a 2022 and 2023 faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office, where he co-edits the weekly newsletter, as well as a non-resident expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. A 2022-23 Fulbright scholar, he is currently working on three book manuscripts on nationalism in Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and mass politics across post-independence Latin America.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Debora Diniz is a Brazilian university professor, human rights activist, documentarist, and public intellectual. Diniz served as a professor at University of Brasília for almost 20 years. She is the founder of Anis – Instituto de Bioética, an organization that specializes in the use of video and research for evidence-based advocacy, policy change, and strategic litigation on health and rights. Diniz served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Fòs Feminista (2018-2023), an international alliance for reproductive justice comprising over 220 organizations in more than 44 countries.  
Her 2016 book, "Zika: From Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat," was awarded the Jabuti Prize Book and has since been translated into English and Japanese. As a video creator, her films have received over 80 awards and have been exhibited at festivals, prisons, universities, schools, hospitals, laboratories, courts, and churches in over 35 countries. She was nominated as one of Foreign Policy Magazine's "100 Global Thinkers." And In 2020, she was the recipient of the esteemed Dan David Prize, and in 2024 the honorary degree at the University of Ottawa.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

A member of the Democratic Party, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove represents California’s vibrant, diverse 37th Congressional District in Los Angeles County. She is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and serves as Vice Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee. She is the Co-Chair of the Congressional Brazil Caucus, and a Whip and Outreach Co-Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus. Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove is also a fierce advocate for the African diaspora both in California’s 37th District and around the world. She leveraged her role on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa to help establish the Congressional Black Caucus Institute’s Global African Diaspora Initiative (GADI) and secure its special consultative status within the United Nations Economic & Social Council. 

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Juliana de Moraes Pinheiro is the co-founder of WBO and was the organization's first executive director. With a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Erasmus Mundus program, Juliana specialized in International Political Economy and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague and the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Juliana has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations & Development from the American University in Washington. With over twelve years of experience, Juliana has worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS), and has collaborated with the Global Alliance for the Green New Deal in Paris, and various NGOs in Washington, D.C. Currently, she coordinates the Socio-Environmental Program at the WBO, and the Liaison & Outreach Strategy for the Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC). 

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Marcos Arruda is an economist, professor and author. He is an associate and co-founder of the PACS Institute – Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone, Rio de Janeiro since 1986 and an associate of the Transnational Institute, in Amsterdam, since 1975. Arruda is the co-founder and former director of IBASE – Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis, Rio de Janeiro, a former member of the Institute of Cultural Action, in Geneva and a consultant in youth and adult education and development for the Ministries of Education of Guine Bissau and Nicarágua. He is also a former professor of Philosophy of Popular Education at IESAE – Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro (1983-1992), as well as a professor and lecturer at universities in Brazil and abroad. Arruda is a member and collaborator of several organizations linked to human rights and environmental issues. He is the author and co-author of more than 10 books and hundreds of articules, published in Brazil and abroad, including A Mother's Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Peter Kornbluh is a Senior Analyst who was has worked at the National Security Archive since April 1986. He currently directs the Archive's Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran-Contra documentation project and director of the Archive's project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. From 1990-1999, he taught at Columbia University as an adjunct assistant professor of international and public affairs. He is the author of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana (UNC Press, 2014), a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year, and The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, which the Los Angeles Times selected as a "best book" of the year. His articles have been published in Foreign Policy, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He has also worked on, and appeared in, numerous documentary films, including the Oscar-winning "Panama Deception," the History Channel's "Bay of Pigs Declassified," "The Trials of Henry Kissinger," and most recently the Netflix documentary, “Crack: Cocaine, Corruption, Conspiracy."

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Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Rafael Alcadipani is full professor of management at the Sao Paulo Management School from the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. He got his PhD in management from the University of Manchester, UK. He does research on police and crime in Brazil. He has published widely in top scientific journals in his academic field. Prof. Alcadipani also writes for non-academic outlets in Brazil and has been called by Brazilian and international media outlets to discuss issues associated with police and crime in Brazil, including Reuters, BBC, Al Jazeera, and the Wall Street Journal, to mention but a few. He was a visiting scholar at Boston College, Gothenburg University, and Paris Dauphine University.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

In the last program of 2023, James Naylor Green switches roles and becomes the interviewee. The Brazil Unfiltered host, who is a professor of Brazilian history and culture at Brown University and the national co-coordinator for the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, answers questions by André Pagliarini, a 2022 and 2023 faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and co-editor of the organization's weekly newsletter. Pagliarini is also assistant professor of history and fellow in the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest at Hampden-Sydney College in central Virginia. *He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences* in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, New York Times, and The Guardian as well as Folha de S. Paulo and Piauí in Brazil. In the program, Green looks back at the WBO's activities and Brazil's political scenario in 2023.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Raísa Cetra is co-executive director at Article 19 Brazil and South America and PhD student in Global Health at USP. She has a bachelor's degree in International Relations at the same university. She has worked widely on international human rights law within civil society organizations, mostly in Brazil and Argentina and in regional and global foruns, such as the United Nations, the Inter-American Human Rights System and Mercosur. Nationally, Raísa has extensive experience with the development of public policies that internalize human rights standards on topics such as migration, democracy and freedom of expression.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

razil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Athayde Motta holds a master’s degree in Anthropology and a master's degree in Public Affairs (both from the University of Texas at Austin). He has a long career in the areas of international development, management of civil society organizations (CSOs) and program and project development. He worked for Oxfam GB and the Ford Foundation and was the Executive Director at IBASE and the Baobá Fund for Racial Equity. He's been a member of the Executive Committees of both the Brazilian Association of NGOs (ABONG) and Forus International. He is a Synergos fellow and member of Publish What You Pay's Board of Trustees.

razil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Mila Burns is an Associate Professor at the Department of Latin American & Latino Studies at Lehman College, CUNY. She is the Associate Director at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Burns is the author of Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019; Editora Cobogó, 2021) and Nasci para Sonhar e Cantar: Dona Ivone Lara, a Mulher no Samba (Editora Record, 2009). Mila has an interdisciplinary profile, with an emphasis on media, anthropology, and history. For over two decades, she has worked as a journalist in Brazil and New York, currently as a political commentator at ICL Notícias. She has served as editor-in-chief and anchor to shows dedicated to the Latino community broadcast at TV Globo International, and has worked at TV Globo, The Economist, O Globo, and others. Her current book manuscript investigates the Brazilian influence on the military coup d’état in Chile, in 1973. Her articles have been published in several newspapers, magazines, and academic publications.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Natalia de Campos is a performance and theater artists, producer, writer, educator, translator and activist born in São Paulo, Brazil. She has lives in New York for the last 25 years, where she founded the multidisciplinary arts collaborative Syncretic Pleasures, to produce performance and arts events with different collaborators. She has taught English and Portuguese about different social movements in Brazil to non-native speakers for many decades while also producing and performing works by Brazilian authors, including her own. In 2016, she cofounded the Defend Democracy in Brazil committee in New York with a group of Brazilian activists to fight for democracy and social justice. She has taught and lectured to independent non-profit organizations and at New York University, Columbia University, the Graduate Center of CUNY on social practices, social engagement, solo performances and New York City activism. Natalia has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of São Paulo and a masters degree in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from CUNY Brooklyn College. She currently teaches Portuguese through social movements' practice, independently and through the People's Forum in New York.

To learn more about what the Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee does, visit www.defenddemicracyinbrazil.org

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Luis Adams is a partner of the Litigation, Arbitration and Compliance practices of Tauil & Chequer Advogados. In the Brasília Office, he is responsible for matters related to Superior and Supreme Courts. Adams has extensive tax experience, working as Counsel for the Federal Treasury at the Ministry of Finance for 24 years, from 1993 until his resignation request in 2017. He worked as Secretary-General of Litigation for the Attorney-General of Brazil (2001-2002) and as Legal Counsel and Adjunct Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (2003-2006). In 2006 he was named as General Counsel of the Ministry of Finance until he was chosen to be Attorney-General of Brazil, a position he kept from 2009 to 2016. As Attorney General, Adams conducted major cases in the judiciary, being responsible for coordinating the environment agreement between the Brazilian Government and Samarco, Vale and BHP. He is a columnist for the legal website Conjur, publishing articles on legal, tax and constitutional issues every Monday.

Fabio Sá e Silva is an associate professor of International Studies and the Wick Cary professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is also affiliated as a fellow at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. He studies the social organization and the political impact of law and justice in Brazil and comparatively. As an institution builder, Fabio codirects the Oklahoma University Center for Brazilian Studies, is a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Studies Association and a trustee of the Law and Society Association - Class of 2013. In 2018, he was recognized as the outstanding faculty in his department.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. Co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute. Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects. Founding Board Member of Labor Tech Research Network. His research interests include platform cooperativism and worker-owned platforms, work & AI, workers' organization, platform labour, communication/media and work. His research appeared in academic outlets such as New Media & Society and International Journal of Communication, and media outlets such as BBC UK, Wired, The Verge and VICE. He is currently working on a book manuscript on worker-owned platforms in Latin America.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Jonathan Watts is a British journalist serving as the global environment editor of The Guardian. Based in the Amazon town of Altamira, Pará state, he is one of the cofounders of Sumauma, an independent news agency specialized in reporting from the Amazon. He has also reported from the Antarctic, Arctic, Amazon and several COP summits for The Guardian, covering, as he says, "a lot of grim stuff I wish wasn't happening and interviewing a lot of great people trying to stop it". Between 2012 and 2017, Watts was The Guardian's Latin America correspondent, when he interviewed political figures such as Brazilian presidents Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff and Bolivian president Evo Morales, among other political leaders of the region. He is the author of When a Billion Chinese Jump (Faber 2010), which was translated into four languages.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, P.H.D. in Political Science, is senior researcher at Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), retired Professor of Political Science and former dean of the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo (2009-2013). Her books include Foreign Policy Responses to the Rise of Brazil – Balancing Power in Emerging States, written with Gian Luca Gardini, and Os Anos de Ouro - Ensaios sobre a democracia no Brasil (The Gilded Years – Essays on Democracy in Brazil). She is former president of the Latin American Studies Association- LASA (2010-2012) and a member of the World Bank Chief Economist´s Council of Eminent Persons (2016-2018), as well as holding the National Order of Scientific Merit (2006). Presently, she is a member of the D. Paulo Evaristo Arns Commission for Protection of Human Rights – Arns Commission and of the Latin American Program Advisory Board at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Jan Rocha is a British born journalist and writer who was correspondent for the BBC World Service and The Guardian in Brazil from the 1970s to the 90s and currently writes about politics for LAB (Latin America Bureau). Her books about Brazil include Murder in the Rainforest: The Yanomami, the Gold Miners and the Amazon and Cutting the Wire (the story of the Landless Movement in Brazil) with Sue Branford, for which they won a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1999. In 2020 she published Nossa Correspondente Informa, a selection of BBC stories broadcast during the Brazilian dictatorship. Her book about the work of CLAMOR, (the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in the countries of the Southern Cone) which she helped create in 1978, will be launched in London on April 27th under the title "CLAMOR: The search for the disappeared of the South American dictatorships". She has twice won the Vladimir Herzog Human Rights prize for journalism, in the categories of radio and books. From 2003-4 she was coordinator of an ILO project investigating the extent of slave labor in Brazil. From 2013-2014 she was a consultant to the Brazilian Truth Commission.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Andre Pagliarini is an assistant professor of history and fellow in the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest at Hampden-Sydney College in central Virginia. He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, New York Times, and The Guardian as well as Folha de S. Paulo and Piauí in Brazil. He is a 2022 and 2023 faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office, where he co-edits the weekly newsletter, as well as a non-resident expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. A 2022-23 Fulbright scholar, he is currently working on three book manuscripts on nationalism in Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and mass politics across post-independence Latin America.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Maurício Angelo is an award-winning international freelance investigative journalist and the founder of The Mining Observatory, a Brazilian based investigative journalism Centre established in 2015. Researcher at Sustainable Development Center at the University of Brasília (UnB). He publishes in many media outlets in Brazil and around the world and was the winner of the Excellence in Journalism Award (2019) by Inter American Press Association. Considered one of the Top 3 journalist experts in Extractive Sector in Brazil in 2022 and 2021.

Alongside socio-environmental monitoring organization Smoke Signal, Angelo's Mining Observatory has just released the report “Pure Dynamite: how Bolsonaro’s Government (2019-2022) Mineral Policy Set Up a Climate and Anti-Indigenous Bomb“. ( bit.ly/3nLwlPL ) Mining Observatory ( https://observatoriodamineracao.com.br/ )

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. The podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

João Roberto Martins Filho is professor emeritus of Political Science at the Federal University of São Carlos with a doctorate in Social Science from the State University of Campinas. He is the author of many classical works, including an English translation of "The Student movement and the military dictatorship" (1987), "The Palace and the Barracks"(1995; 2nd edition, 2019), "The Brazilian Navy in the Age of Battleships - 1895-1910" (2010) and "State Secrets: the British Government and Torture in Brazil" (2018; 2nd edition 2020). He was the president of the Brazilian Defense Studies Association from 2006 to 2008 and has had postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) and the Centre for Brazilian Studies at the University of Oxford, among many other places. He has also held the Rio Branco chair of International Relations at King's College, London, and twice the Rui Barbosa chair in Brazilian Studies at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. Brazil is going through challenging times.

There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. It is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha.

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Cecília MacDowell Santos is Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (UC Berkeley) and a Master in Law (University of São Paulo). Her research interests center on laws, policies, and feminist mobilizations to combat violence against women, as well as transnational legal mobilization of human rights. She is the author of Women’s Police Stations: Gender, Violence, and Justice in São Paulo, Brazil (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and has edited four books. She has published several book chapters and articles about gender-based and intersectional violence, the State, justice, human rights, and transnational legal mobilization in Brazil and in the inter-American system of human rights. She has also conducted research and published a book on transnational legal mobilization in Portugal and the European Court of Human Rights.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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​​In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Fiona Watson. Fiona is Research and Advocacy Director at Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples' rights. She has been with Survival since 1990 and worked on many campaigns for Indigenous peoples’ rights, notably with the Yanomami, Guarani, and Awá in Brazil. She has visited many Indigenous communities in South America and is a specialist on uncontacted tribes in the Amazon. She carried out fieldwork with a Quechua Indigenous community in the Peruvian Andes for her Masters degree and lived in the Brazilian Amazon for two years in the 1980s.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.
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​​In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Fernanda Magnotta. Fernanda is a specialist in United States foreign policy. She holds a PhD and a Master's degree from the San Tiago Dantas foreign relations post-graduation program, of a consortium of the State University of São Paulo (Unesp), the State University in Campinas (Unicamp) and the São Paulo Pontificate Catholic University (PUC-SP). Fernanda is also a professor and coordinator of the International Relations course at FAAP university, international politics columnist for the UOL news website and a commentator for CBN radio.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Celso Amorim. Celso is a professor and professional diplomate. He served as Dilma Rousseff's Minister of Defense (2011-2014) and Lula's Minister of Foreign Relations (2003-2010). Celso also spent time as the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations and the World Trade Organization and was a founding member of the Puebla Group, which brings together leftwing academics and politicians in a worldwide forum.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Guilherme Casarões. Guilherme is a Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Center of International Relations, a professor at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, and a member of the Observatório da Extrema Direita. His research explores topics related to Brazilian foreign policy, Latin American politics, and the rise of the extreme.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Celso Rocha de Barros. Celso is a Sociologist and Political Scientist. Celso is a political columnist for the Folha de São Paulo and the author of "PT, uma história," which comes out October, 2022.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with journalist Fernanda Mena. Fernanda has worked at the Folha de São Paulo for over a decade, both as an editor and as a reporter. Before arriving at the Folha, she worked at Piauí, Fantástico, TV Globo, and UOL. Fernanda is a leading voice in the debate about drug prohibition and the politics of policing. In 2020, she completed her doctorate in International Relations at the University of Sao Paulo. Her dissertation analyzes different approaches to the legalization of cannabis in the U.S and in Uruguay. Additionally, Fernanda has written extensively on numerous topics related to human rights with a focus on the themes of security, inequality, and diversity. She is also the host of a wonderful 10-part podcast series called “Cara Pessoa” that was produced by the Folha de São Paulo newspaper in partnership with Conectas and explores many important human rights issues.

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Brian Mier. Brian is a Chicago native who has lived in Brazil for almost 30 years while working as a journalist. Brian is co-editor of the English language publication Brasil Wire and correspondent for Telesur English’s news program, “From the South.” He also edited the book Year of Lead: Washington, Wall Street and the New Imperialism in Brazil, which came out in 2019.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Rafael Ioris. Rafael is a professor of Latin American history in the history department at the University of Denver and a researcher at the Institute for the Study of the United States in Brazil. You can find Rafael's opinions in multi-media outlets in Brazil and in the U.S. on topics ranging from U.S./Latin America/Brazil relations, Brazilian foreign policy, and U.S. politics. Rafael is a non-resident fellow at the Washington Brazil Office.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Marcelle Decothé. Marcelle is the advocacy director at the Instituto Marielle Franco. She is completing a doctorate in sociology at the Fluminense Federal University. Her academic interests include activism, race, favelas, and public security. As a representative of the Instituto Marielle Franco, Marcelle was one of the members of a delegation of 19 Brazilian NGOs that traveled to Washington D.C. in late July 2022. The trip was organized by the Washington Brazil Office with the purpose of speaking to policymakers and legislators about the threats to democracy in the upcoming Brazilian elections. The delegation met with officials at the State Department, members of Congress, a representative of the AFL-CIO, ambassadors of the Organization of American States (OAS), and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Márcia Lima. Márcia is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo and the coordinator of the Afro Research Center on race, gender, and racial justice at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (AFRO-CEBRAP). In her interview, Márcia offered her insight into the politics of racial inequality, the role played by gender and race in everyday life, the real progress that has been made by affirmative action programs in Brazil, and more.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Leonardo Avritzer. Leonardo is a Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is the author of many books, including Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America, Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil, and A inovação democrático no Brasil. He is currently the president of the Brazilian Political Science Association. Since 2018, Leonardo coordinates the Election Observatory, which brings together political scientists to gather empirical data on the electoral process in Brazil, as well as the Participatory Democracy Project.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Edward MacRae. Edward is Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Bahia in the Department of Anthropology. Edward’s doctoral dissertation and first book, The Construction of Equality: Sexual Identity and Politics in Brazil During the Opening is widely considered to be a one of the founding classics of LGBTQIA+ Studies in Brazil. Edward has also written extensively on public policy regarding drugs and harm reduction.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Lilia Schwarcz. Lilia is a professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and the University of São Paulo. She is the author of many books in Portuguese and in English on the history and culture of Brazil. Some of her books available in English include: The Spectacle of Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930; The Emperor’s Beard: D. Pedro II and His tropical Monarchy in Brazil; Lima Barreto: A Sad Visionary in Brazil at the Beginning of the XX Century; Brazil: A Biography – co-written with Heloisa Starling. And, coming out in English very soon: Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present. Lilia regularly writes for popular Brazilian newspapers such as Folha de S. Paulo, Estado de S. Paulo, and Nexo. Also, Lilia is a pioneer and model of how academics can use social media platforms like youtube and Instagram to increase historical consciousness.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks Valério Arcary. Valério is a Professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo (IFSP) and one of the leading public intellectuals active in the Socialism and Liberty Party, or PSOL as it is referred to in Brazil. Valério is an expert on Marxist history and historiography. He is the author of numerous books on the subject, his most recent being, The Hammer of History (O Martelo da História). He regularly shares his opinions and political analysis in publications like Jacobin, Brasil de Fato, and Revista Forum.
Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Associate professor of political science at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, George Avelino. George's research focuses on elections, political parties, political coalitions, comparative politics, democracy, and public policy. In the interview, George discusses in detail the current political climate in Brazil in the lead up to the elections this October.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Vânia Penha-Lopes, Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College, in New Jersey. Vânia is co-chair of the Brazil Seminar at Columbia University (2008-present) and was a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Studies Association-BRASA (2010-14). A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dr. Penha-Lopes graduated with honors from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences (1982). She is also a graduate of New York University, with a Master’s degree in Anthropology (1987) and a Ph.D. in Sociology (1999). As a post-doctoral fellow at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2006-07), she did research on the first graduating class of Brazilian university quota students. In addition to a number of articles, she is the author of the books The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation"(2022), Confronting Affirmative Action: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice (2017), Pioneiros: Cotistas na Universidade Brasileira (2013), and co-editor of Religiosidade e Performance: Diálogos Contemporâneos (2015).

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Andre Pagliarini professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and the co-editor of the Washington Brazil Office's weekly "Brazilian Election Bulletin." In addition to writing widely for general audiences in the United States and Brazil in outlets like The Guardian, New Republic, Folha de S. Paulo, and Piauí, Andre is preparing a book manuscript on the contested politics of nationalism in twentieth-century Brazil.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Jana Silverman about the current state of the Brazilian labor movement. Jana holds a Ph.D. in Labor Economics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Center for Global Workers’ Rights at Penn State University. She is a Research Fellow at the Washington Brazil Office. In addition, Jana is Co-Chair of the Americas Subcommittee, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) International Committee. Previously, she was Country Programs Director for Brazil of the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center in Sao Paulo from 2012-2020.

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Mauricio Moura, the founder and chief executive officer of IDEIA Big Data and a visiting scholar at George Washington University.

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Ana Paula Vargas, the Brazil Program Director at Amazon Watch. Ana Paula is a member of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil and Amazon Watch is a partner organization with the Washington Brazil Office.

In this special episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Gladys Mitchell-Walthour about the life and legacy of Marielle Franco and the state of transnational Black activism today. Mitchell-Walthour is Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Economy in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She specializes in Afro-Brazilian political behavior, black racial identity, discrimination, affirmative action and Bolsa Familia. She served as president of the Brazil Studies Association (2018-2020) and is currently National Co-Coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office

She is the author of The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil, publish by Cambridge University Press in 2018. Her work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including Latin American Politics & Society; Politics, Groups, and Identities; and the National Political Science Review.Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Gregório Duvivier, Gregório is an actor, comedian, and writer. He is the host of the weekly HBO show, Greg News, and one of the creators of the youtube channel Porta dos Fundos. Gregório is also an ambassador for the Washington Brazil Office.

Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with David Nemer, Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, a Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center and Princeton University's Brazil Lab, and a research fellow at the Washington Brazil Office. David's current research explores the problem of online misinformation focused on countries in the Global South.

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In this special message, Professor James N. Green expresses his gratitude to all of the people who have watched or listened to Brazil Unfiltered this year. With the Brazilian presidential election just around in the corner in 2022, and the seemingly inevitable showdown between Bolsonaro and Lula, we can only imagine what unforeseen circumstances will arise. But, whatever happens, you can rest assured that Brazil Unfiltered will be here to help make sense of it all. See you soon.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Thiago Amparo. Thiago is a lawyer, scholar, human rights activist, and professor at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He has a weekly column in the Folha de São Paulo and hosts the podcast: “Quem ler tanto noticia,” which, since its launch earlier this year, is one of Brazil’s most listened to news podcasts. Thiago is currently living in New York City where he post-doctoral fellow at the NYU law school.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green speaks with Patrícia Campos Mello. Patricia is a renowned journalist currently working at the Folha de São Paulo. She has had a long and rich career that has taken her all over the world. In 2018, Patrícia published a series of articles detailing a possible illegal social media strategy that Bolsonaro was using to influence the presidential election. In the interview, Patrícia discusses what she uncovered in her investigation and much more.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Sérgio Ferreira, Lula's longtime interpreter. In the interview, Sérgio reflects on the decades he spent by Lula's side, as well as his own personal struggle to expose many of the atrocities committed by the Brazilian Military dictatorship, which include the disappearance of his cousin. Since the 1970s, Sérgio has played an important role in supporting human rights in Brazil. He is was central figure in the fight for the political amnesty of leftwing revolutionaries and pushed for the establishment of a Truth Commission.

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green spoke with Stanley Gacek, the Senior Advisor for Global Strategies at the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). Stanley is a leading member of the U.S. Network fo Democracy in Brazil and has been on the forefront of many of the international labor issues involving the United States and Brazil for several decades. Over his years of international solidarity work, Stanley developed a close relationship with former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. When Lula was unjustly imprisoned, for over 500 days between 2017 and 2019, Stanley visited him in prison. Stanley was also a central figure in bringing attention to this blatant act of political persecution.

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In this special episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green tells the story of how Brazil changed his life, from his arrival in the country in 1976, to his time as a student activist and founder of one of the first politicized LGBT movements in South America, and, later ,as a professor of history, a friend of former president Dilma Rousseff, and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

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In Brazil, November 20th is widely celebrated as a day of Black Consciousness. It is also the anniversary of the assassination of Zumbi dos Palmares. Today, both the figure of Zumbi and the Quilombo or Maroon community of Palmares are important symbols associated with Brazil's African diaspora, and black activism. It is also interesting to note that over the years Zumbi and Palmares have been used as representations of broader subaltern resistance and collective action, especially among leftwing groups. In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green delves into the history and legacy of Zumbi dos Palmares.
The final portion of this episode includes a Brazilian News Update, which begins at 26:46

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green sits down with Sean T. Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, to discuss the history and politics of the Alcântara Space Center.

The final portion of this episode includes a Brazilian News Update, which begins at 53:17

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green sits down with Oliver Stuenkel, Professor of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo, to discuss Brazil’s place in the world.

The final portion of this episode includes a Brazilian News Update, which begins at 57:17

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green focuses on the recent Congressional Investigation into Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic and their conclusion that the President is guilty of a number of crimes, including crimes against humanity. Green pays particular attention to the debate over whether or not Bolsonaro's actions can and should be classified as genocide.

The final portion of this episode includes a Brazilian News Update, which begins at 10:49

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Jair Bolsonaro is one of the worst leaders on earth today. Since his forced departure from the military in the late 1980s, to his entry into electoral politics, Bolsonaro has consistently and clearly articulated extreme rightwing positions that often threaten democracy itself. In this episode James Green does a deep dive into the political trajectory of Jair Bolsonaro as he works to answer the question: How did this happen in Brazil?

The final portion of this episode includes a Brazilian News Update, which begins at 27:34

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green explores the political trajectory of former Brazilian president and current leading presidential candidate for the 2022 election, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The final portion of this episode includes a Brazilian News Update, which begins at 29:58

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In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green describes the political situation in Brazil one year prior to the presidential election. Several of the main points covered are: a presentation of the current political landscape, the growing protest movement, and a discussion of the leading presidential candidates, including President Jair Bolsonaro, former-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as well as the search for an illustrious “third way” politician.

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Brazil Unfiltered is produced by Camarada Productions

Some of the strongest opposition to Jair Bolsonaro has come from students and educators in Brazil, so it’s no surprise that Bolsonaro has framed Brazil’s education system as a threat to the country. For this last episode of the first season of Brazil Unfiltered, James Green talks with Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and a former professor at the State University of Campinas in Brazil. They discuss how Brazil’s education system operates, and how it’s suffered in the last few years. They also explore how Brazil’s universities might fight back against the administration’s attacks -- and what’s at stake if they don’t.

On this episode: a deep dive into Brazil’s national and electoral politics. To do that, Jim Green talked with George Avelino, a Professor of Political Science at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, and director of the Center for Politics and Economics in the Public Sector.

Leah VanWey is a sociologist and expert on the effects of deforestation in Brazil [https://www.brown.edu/academics/sociology/people/leah-vanwey]. On this episode she and Jim Green explore the history, politics, and science of Brazil’s forests. Because how they're managed will affect not just Brazil's economy and environment, but the world's.

Debora Diniz is an anthropologist, activist, and former University of Brasilia law professor. Her life was utterly transformed last year, when she helped bring a case to Brazil’s Supreme Court to decriminalize abortion. Death threats were made against her. She received police protection, and went into hiding prior to the case’s final hearings. Today she’s living in exile in the US. On this episode Debora and James talk about life in exile, how to combine scholarship with activism, and how to navigate the 'local flavors' of authoritarianism we're seeing around the world today.

On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered James Green talks with Ben Cowan, Associate Professor of History at UC San Diego and a leading expert on the history of Brazil’s military dictatorship. His 2016 book ‘Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil,’ looks at how cultural shifts in the 60s, 70s, and 80s -- especially changing attitudes towards sexuality and gender -- were held up by the dictatorship as dangers to the country. Green and Cowan discuss how this paranoia continues today on the far right, where everything from gender equality to gay rights is viewed as an existential political threat.

On December 1, 2018, a group of activists and scholars met in New York to talk about the political crisis in Brazil. What came out of that meeting was the creation of US Network for Democracy in Brazil. James Green is currently serving as the National Coordinator of the Network, and on this episode of Brazil Unfiltered he talked with colleague Merina Adams, the Network’s National Organizer. They discuss what spurred the creation of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, how it has grown since December, and how they plan to make social progress in Brazil a priority here in the US.

It's impossible to understand contemporary Brazil without understanding life in the country's poorest and most marginalized communities. Watson Postdoctoral Fellow Nick Barnes lived in one such community -- a favela in Rio de Janeiro -- from 2012 to 2015. On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, host James Green talks with Nick about life in Rio’s favelas: how they’re governed, how they were transformed by the World Cup and Olympics, and what the current political climate means for their future.

If you're in the Providence area be sure to visit 'Maré de Dentro: Race, Gender, and Life amid the Militarization of Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas,' an art exhibit on view at The Watson Institute through May 3. More information here: https://watson.brown.edu/events/2019/art-watson-presents-mar-de-dentro-race-gender-and-life-amid-militarization-rio-de

March 14 marked the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Marielle Franco, a politician and activist in Rio de Janeiro. Her assassination shook the city -- and the country. On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, a new podcast from the Watson Institute at Brown University, host James Green [https://watson.brown.edu/people/faculty-fellows/green] talked with Keisha-Khan Perry, an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University [https://vivo.brown.edu/display/kyperry] and author of 'Black Women against the Land Grab,' [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/black-women-against-the-land-grab] about Franco’s life and work, and about how her assassination fits into a bigger story about Brazil’s shifting politics. They also looked at what Franco’s story can teach us about our political struggles back in the US.

To listen to the Watson Institutes other podcasts click here: [https://soundcloud.com/watsoninstitute/sets]

On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered James continues his conversation with Ivo Herzog, the son of slain journalist and symbol of Brazilian democracy, Vladimir Herzog. Vladimir Herzog was murdered by the Brazilian military in 1975, and the protests surrounding his death marked a turning point in the fall of Brazil's military dictatorship. Ivo now leads the Vladimir Herzog Institute, an NGO that protects journalists, promotes human rights education, and advocates for democracy in Brazil. James and Ivo discuss the Institute's mission and creation, the importance of a free press to democracy, and how the Institute continues the Herzog family legacy. 

If you haven't listened to the first part of this conversation yet, you can do so here: [https://soundcloud.com/brazilunfiltered/fighting-for-democracy-and-making-meaning-from-tragedy]

You can watch Ivo’s talk from his recent visit to the Watson Institute here: [www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfvvN8ZEE…&feature=youtu.be]

In Brazil, the name Vladamir Herzog is iconic. Herzog was a journalist who, in 1975, was tortured and killed by members of the military. Officials staged his death to make it look like a suicide. When this cover-up was exposed, ordinary citizens took to the streets; many would argue that the protests surrounding his death marked the beginning of the end of Brazil’s military dictatorship. On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered: Part One in a two-part series on the Herzog family’s history and legacy. James Green speaks with Vladimir Herzog’s son, Ivo, about his father's life, death, and work. Ivo now leads the Vladimir Herzog Institute, an NGO that protects journalists, promotes human rights education, and documents attacks to democracy in present day Brazil.

You can watch Ivo’s talk from his recent visit to the Watson Institute here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfvvN8ZEEXM&feature=youtu.be]

On this episode, Jim and Brazil Unfiltered’s new co-host Marina Adams have a fascinating conversation with Geri Augusto, Associate Professor of International & Public Affairs and Africana Studies at Brown. They talk about what drew Geri to studying and working in Brazil, some of her most fruitful partnership with scholars and activists in the country, and how we should reimagine our study of Brazil for the 21st century.

On this episode James talks with Erica Lorraine Williams, Assistant Professor at Spelman College and author of 'Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements.' They discuss Erica’s book, which explores how Brazil’s sex tourism industry affects Afro-Brazilian women’s lives in the Brazilian state of Bahia. They also look more broadly at how Afro-Brazilian women have been impacted by the election of president Jair Balsanaro, and the ways they have organized to resist this current regime.

You can learn more about Erica's book here: [https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/67nsg8gz9780252037931.html]

December 2019 marks the one-year anniversary of the founding of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, a grassroots organization dedicated to fighting for Brazil’s democracy from outside its borders. On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, Jim (who co-founded the organization) talks with the Network's National Organizer, Marina Adams. They discuss the growth and evolution of the network over the last year, and their plans going forward. They also discuss the power of forming a diverse, international coalition, and the unique opportunities that arise when scholars and activists collaborate.

For more information about the Network, follow them on Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/democracybrazil/]

From the corruption scandal known as ‘Operation Car Wash’ to Bolsonaro’s clashes with the Supreme Court, today Brazil’s judiciary is at the center of the nation’s political and social struggles. On this episode, James Green talks with someone uniquely qualified on the subject: former Attorney General Luís Inácio Adams. In addition to the process and politics of ‘Operation Car Wash’ and Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, Luís and James look at how the courts stand as a check against some of President Bolsonaro’s most conservative tendencies, and how the country’s political landscape could change in the coming years.

To see Luís Inácio Adam's lecture during his visit to the Watson institute, follow this link: [https://watson.brown.edu/brazil/events/2019/luis-cio-adams-challenges-brazilian-constitution-our-democracy-jeopardy]

Leila Lehnen is the Chair of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. Her work uses literature to explore Brazilian society, culture, and history. As she she sees it, literature doesn’t just reflect a country's culture and politics -- it shapes it, too.

On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, Jim and Leila discuss what her work has taught her about contemporary Brazil, and how literature can help us expand our imagination of the politically possible. They also discuss politics in Brazil today, and the changing attitudes towards President Bolsonaro.

To learn more about Leila Lehnen's book 'Citizenship and Crisis in Contmeporary Brazil', follow this link: [https://www.amazon.com/Citizenship-Crisis-Contemporary-Brazilian-Literature/dp/1349447218/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=]

On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Green talks with Vera Paiva, a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sao Paulo. Vera is an expert on the ways societies deal with collective trauma, and how it affects everything from politics to public health. Her interest in the work is also personal; her father was a politician and activist who abducted, killed, and disappeared by the military when Vera was 16. James and Vera talk about her upbringing, her work combating the spread of AIDS and HIV, and how to get out from under the shadow of a military dictatorship.